Word: dog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through a nationally televised twelve minutes without once directly calling for a Republican Congress this fall. "We all know that the political prophets have already [figured] the odds the Republicans are up against. But these calculations overlook the decisive element. What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight-it's the size of the fight in the dog . . . Some people say a political party needs a working majority. It's even more important right now to have a majority working...
...weighs 30.8 lbs. The satellite proper weighs 18.13 lbs.; of this, its steel outer skin weighs 7.5 lbs., and the rest, nearly 11 lbs., is the payload of instruments. These weights do not compare with Sputnik I (184 lbs. without its rocket) or Sputnik II (1,120 lbs. with dog and rocket), but the Explorer's instruments are so light and sophisticated that they may send as much information from space as their Russian rivals...
...fans learned that they may suffer a final indignity. Not only has their team bugged out for San Francisco, but a collection of ambitious Westerners is planning to invade the Polo Grounds. Western Racing Inc. has announced a goldplated, $15 million plan for turning the old ballpark into a dog-racing track. Next requirement: the approval of the New York state legislature...
...Dogs, New Tricks. Heart and brain operations on pets are still uncommon, mainly because they command such high fees. But in Pasadena, Dr. Robert H. Pudenz has successfully removed several brain tumors, both malignant and benign, from dogs and cats. A Florida vet has removed worms from a dog's pulmonary artery with the animal under hypothermia. A dog has no appendix, so is spared the need for an appendectomy, but he has a human-type caecum (a dead-end pouch at a turn in the intestines), which is the favorite hideaway of the whipworm. Vermifuges often cannot reach...
...country, fees are remarkably uniform. Most vets charge $3 to $5 for an office visit, add $2 or so for ordinary medicines, $3 to $6 for injections (more and better vaccines are coming out), $5 for tooth-cleaning ($7.50 with tartar scraping), $50 for cosmetic surgery to make a dog's ears stand up. Spaying runs from $20 (for a cat) to $35 for a bitch, more if the patient is over a year old. Most vets can be induced to make house calls (though they discourage them for the same reasons as M.D.s), charge...